Stars: Yôko Katsuragi, Ichirô Shimizu, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura
Noriko is 27 years old and still lives with her widowed father. Everyone wants to convince her to marry, but she wants to stay at home and take care of her father...
Stars: Nobuo Nakamura, Tôru Abe, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
An old couple visits their children and grandchildren in the city, and are ignored...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Nobuo Nakamura, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
An old widower arranges the marriage of his only daughter...
Stars: Kokuten Kôdô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Setsuko Hara
A family chooses a marriage for their daughter Noriko, but surprisingly, she has plans of her own...
Stars: Isuzu Yamada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Eiko Miyoshi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura
Two sisters search for their missing mother, but the younger sister cannot come to terms with the fact that she was abandoned by her mother as a child...
Stars: Kôji Mitsui, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Mutsuko Sakura, Toyo Takahashi
The head of a traveling theater troupe returns to the small beach town where he left his son, who he thinks is his uncle, and tries to clear things up with him one last time and have a relationship, but his lover becomes jealous...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara
A widow tries to marry her daughter, with the help of three of her late husband's friends...
Stars: Eiko Miyoshi, Taiji Tonoyama, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura, Kuniko Miyake
Two boys observe fasting to persuade their parents to buy a television set...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Nobuo Nakamura, Fumio Watanabe, Chishû Ryû, Hisao Toake
A businessman gets into trouble with his eldest daughter because of her choice in a wife...
Stars: Yôko Tsukasa, Daisuke Katô, Chieko Naniwa, Yû Fujiki, Akira Takarada
The family of an elderly man who owns a small sake brewery is worried about his financial situation and health after they discover that he has been meeting an elderly lover from his teenage years...
Stars: Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Chieko Nakakita, Junji Masuda
A young man and his wife struggle with their loveless marriage as the man has a secret love affair...
Stars: Keiko Tsushima, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake, Hisao Toake, Eijirô Yanagi
A childless middle-aged married couple faces a marital crisis...
Stars: Kamatari Fujiwara, Noriko Sengoku, Chishû Ryû, Sô Yamamura, Hideko Takamine
Setsuko is not happy living with Mimura, an unemployed engineer who is always drinking. She used to be in love with Hiroshi, but after Hiroshi's migration to France, their love was forgotten. Now he is back and...
Stars: Eitarô Ozawa, Kuniko Miyake, Koreya Senda, Shinobu Araki, Sadako Sawamura
The film portrays a woman's efforts to achieve equality in Japan in the 1880s. "Iko Hirayama" went to Tokyo and helped the Liberal Party, and just when the party was declared dissolved by the government, she fell in love with its leader, "Kentaro Umoi". The two were sent to prison and...
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Ken'ichi Miyajima, Isamu Yamaguchi, Tatsuo Saitô, Hideo Sugawara
A married man from Tokyo becomes unemployed after supporting one of his elderly colleagues...
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Tatsuo Saitô, Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
A desperate man with a sick daughter decides to commit a robbery to help her. But as soon as he starts, he feels regret and makes him question his decision.
Stars: Chishû Ryû, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kikuko Hanaoka, Ureo Egawa, Tatsuo Saitô
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative job, he cheats the system and hires three of his college friends.
Stars: Shirô Ôsaka, Toyo Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Kappei Matsumoto, Toshinosuke Nagao
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hirokos sisters husband Kono, who also sent Hirokos fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during t... Read all
Stars: Seiji Miyaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi, Chishû Ryû, Koreya Senda, Nobuo Takagi
A film by prolific Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita, adapted from a novel, which is about two journalists and their beloved women, but if we look deeper, it is about our moral choices and the consequences and rewards we get from our early life decisions.
